Metro Pictures, New York
Christie’s, New York, Contemporary Art, 8 May 8 1990, lot 519
Galerie Lallouz, Montreal
Sotheby’s, New York, 12 November 2008, lot 525
Private Collection, Europe
Phillips, New York, 8 March 2012, lot 36
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art, Image Scavengers: Photography, December 1982 - January 1983 (another example exhibited)
Amsterdam, The Stedelijk Museum, Cindy Sherman, December 1982, p. 165 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Cindy Sherman, 9 July - 4 October 1987, p. 18 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Peter Schjeldahl and Michael Danoff, eds., Cindy Sherman, New York, 1984, n.p. (another example illustrated)
Rosalind Krauss, Cindy Sherman: 1975-1993, New York, 1993, p. 228 (another example illustrated, p. 106)
Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yves-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh and David Joselit, eds., Art Since 1900, London, 2016, p. 735 (another example illustrated, p. 736)
American • 1954
Seminal to the Pictures Generation as well as contemporary photography and performance art, Cindy Sherman is a powerhouse art practitioner. Wily and beguiling, Sherman's signature mode of art making involves transforming herself into a litany of characters, historical and fictional, that cross the lines of gender and culture. She startled contemporary art when, in 1977, she published a series of untitled film stills.
Through mise-en-scène and movie-like make-up and costume, Sherman treats each photograph as a portrait, though never one of herself. She embodies her characters even if only for the image itself. Presenting subversion through mimicry, against tableaus of mass media and image-based messages of pop culture, Sherman takes on both art history and the art world.
Though a shape-shifter, Sherman has become an art world celebrity in her own right. The subject of solo retrospectives across the world, including a blockbuster showing at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and a frequent exhibitor at the Venice Biennale among other biennials, Sherman holds an inextricable place in contemporary art history.
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